UCD has Ireland's largest French programme, with a long-established international reputation for research and teaching excellence. Despite its size and range, French at UCD retains many of the best features of small departments: close contact with lecturers and small class sizes.

About 400 students take French. We have 13 permanent staff members whose interests range from Medieval Literature to the Literature of the Enlightenment to Contemporary Cultural Theory and Modern Francophone Literature. There are also part-time tutors (including postgraduates), six lecteurs/lectrices (student teachers from France), a Faculty Research Fellow, and a full-time Administrator.

Our undergraduate courses teach language, civilisation, and a rich variety of non-language (mainly but not exclusively literature) topics. Most courses include a tutorial component. After First Year, students have more and more opportunities to select options from the range of non-language courses. The Second Year non-language programme mostly deals with the 19th and pre-19th century French experience, while the Third Year concentrates largely on the 20th and 21st centuries.

Whether taken as the three-year BA, the four-year BA International, the four-year BComm International, or as the evening BA Modular, French in UCD is part of a Joint Honours degree.

You will find us on the third floor of the John Henry Newman Building. For further details of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, please click on the links above.